Nuclear Blast Americ
2008
Holographic Universe
About This Album
With their daunting versatility, sheer instrumental prowess, and prolific songwriting talents, Sweden's Scar Symmetry must drive other heavy metal bands absolutely crazy with envy! Ever since their entirely unpublicized, or at least unexpected, emergence via 2005's impressive Symmetric in Design, and its even more undeniable follow-up, Pitch Black Progress, released just one year later, the quintet made up of spare parts left over from other bands, looked capable of trouncing any competitor, and possibly blazing a future trail for technical, yet accessible heavy metal. Unfortunately, record sales didn't respond in kind to this widespread critical acclaim, and although the band's core strengths remain as sharp and potent as ever on their third album, 2008's Holographic Universe, you can't help but wonder whether a broader heavy metal audience will ever get the band, in the end. If anything, Holographic Universe is their most commercially focused album yet, and the band appears more serious than ever about contrasting super melodic choruses, guitar harmonies, and even intermittent synths, against aesthetic "evil twins" like furious death metal growls, aggressive riffing, and torrential drumming.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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